Pumpkin Patch

Ali wouldn't sit on the hay for a picture. So it's just Emma.
She actually picked it up.

They had small round pumpkins that the girls thought were balls. "Ball" is what they would say as they held it up.

I want that one!

Look, what I just found!

What a cheesy face.

Trying to climb over the pumpkin.

So today after a quick run to the doctor's office, that story needs a post of it's own, mom and I took the girls to the pumpkin patch in Battlefield Estates. My neighbor told me about the place 2 years ago and I keep going back. It's a nice quiet place, they have pumpkins pre picked or you can pick your own. Each year I have gone it is always quiet, maybe another family or two there but never more than that. You pay on the honor system and the pumpkins are super cheap. So we took the girls this afternoon to get a few pumpkins and some pictures. We never made it into the actual pumpkin patch, the girls had a blast playing in the little barn where the pre picked pumpkins were.

18 months and 12 days

The laughing. The jumping up and down. Then the crying, but there was never anything more than crying. This morning came the THUD. It was a different thud than the one yesterday morning that came from Emma hitting her head against the crib rail. I knew when I heard the thud that something had happened. As I entered the girls room this morning, there was Ali getting herself up off the floor. She had climbed out of bed and was now on the floor. I guess she didn't like waiting on me to come get her out and decided to get herself out. Let's see if it happens again. She's to young to be doing this and she is NOT ready for the next stage of her bed. We would never be able to keep her in it at night time until she went to sleep.

Our Zumbro Wall

So we redid a wall in the living room Sunday night. Now we have what I call the Zumbro wall. All the photos are ones that Steve Zumbro has taken. We found the word wall art at Kohl's Sunday and thought that would work since one thing we had to put up was our family photo. I hope over time we can add more family photos and pictures of the girls. It will continue to be a work in progress.

18 Months

My babies, or should I say toddlers, went for their 18 month check up today. As always they stayed about 2 pounds apart in their weight with Emma being the heavier one. Ali is now 1/2 inch taller. I'm just amazed that Ali grows at all because of how little she eats and how she is always on the move. Now we get to wait for 6 months before we visit again instead of 3 months. Although while we were there I failed a mommy test. I couldn't tell Dr. Renick how many words each girl is saying right now. So I have homework until Monday. Keep a list of everything EACH girl says. As long as they are saying more than 11 words I'm good to go. I think this is one time being a mom of twins is super hard. Everything just blends into one big blur for me and I forget that I have two different children.

Back Home on the Farm

Around and around we go.

The Cow Train
The Cow Train



Milking the cow. Ali was pretty good at it.

Aren't my flowers beautiful?

This gives me hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel. There are some days that I wonder if I'll make it.

Climbing through tunnels.

Climbing through tunnels.

Attempting the corn maze. We didn't make it very far, a few circles and then back out the way we went in.

Let the races begin!

What they don't think of.....

Ali trying to wear Billy's underwear that were drying on the clothes rack.

Emma sitting in the stool, but that is better than standing on top of it.

Emma eating with a spoon

Emma is now eating with a spoon. Or maybe I should say has been eating with a spoon. When Ali first started eating with a spoon we would give Emma one too, but all she wanted to do with it was play. Now she's an eating monster. She picked up the trick pretty quickly.